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Explore how students are disrupting education by using digital resources to support self-direct learning

Free Agent Learning: Leveraging Students'' Self-Directed Learning to Transform K-12 Education explores an emerging cohort of students that are self-directing their learning around interest-driven topics, the tools they''re using to scaffold these experiences, and their motivations for these out-of-school learning behaviors. Readers will find new insights and frameworks for effectively leveraging the lived experiences of their students and transforming their schools'' cultures, norms and practices.

In this book, readers will learn how education leaders can translate a newly emerged understanding about students'' self-directed learning into actionable knowledge to improve teaching and learning Free Agent Learners also offers:

  • Info dispelling the myth that real learning only happens in a classroom
  • Discussions of how modern students are using

    Table of Contents

    About the Author xi

    Acknowledgments xiii

    Introduction xvii

    1 Understanding the Student Vision for Learning 1

    2 Defining Free Agent Learnership 27

    3 Motivations for Free Agent Learner Behaviors 55

    4 Meet the Free Agent Learner 95

    5 Free Agent Learning Activities and Behaviors 115

    6 The Free Agent Learner’s Perspective on School, Learning, and Technology 143

    7 Why Schools Are Not (Yet) Ready to Embrace Free Agent Learning 177

    8 Why the Free Agent Learning Ecosystem Matters Today—Student Engagement 219

    9 Why the Free Agent Learning Ecosystem Matters Today—Equity in Learning 259

    10 Ten Things Education Leaders Can Do Today to Support Free Agent Learnership 287

    Index 323

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Publication Date: 10/10/2022
      ISBN13: 9781119789826, 978-1119789826
      ISBN10: 1119789826
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explore how students are disrupting education by using digital resources to support self-direct learning

      Free Agent Learning: Leveraging Students'' Self-Directed Learning to Transform K-12 Education explores an emerging cohort of students that are self-directing their learning around interest-driven topics, the tools they''re using to scaffold these experiences, and their motivations for these out-of-school learning behaviors. Readers will find new insights and frameworks for effectively leveraging the lived experiences of their students and transforming their schools'' cultures, norms and practices.

      In this book, readers will learn how education leaders can translate a newly emerged understanding about students'' self-directed learning into actionable knowledge to improve teaching and learning Free Agent Learners also offers:

      • Info dispelling the myth that real learning only happens in a classroom
      • Discussions of how modern students are using

        Table of Contents

        About the Author xi

        Acknowledgments xiii

        Introduction xvii

        1 Understanding the Student Vision for Learning 1

        2 Defining Free Agent Learnership 27

        3 Motivations for Free Agent Learner Behaviors 55

        4 Meet the Free Agent Learner 95

        5 Free Agent Learning Activities and Behaviors 115

        6 The Free Agent Learner’s Perspective on School, Learning, and Technology 143

        7 Why Schools Are Not (Yet) Ready to Embrace Free Agent Learning 177

        8 Why the Free Agent Learning Ecosystem Matters Today—Student Engagement 219

        9 Why the Free Agent Learning Ecosystem Matters Today—Equity in Learning 259

        10 Ten Things Education Leaders Can Do Today to Support Free Agent Learnership 287

        Index 323

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